Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph!
> Me too.
> 
> Except that I would not want to restrict this complaint to Fedora KDE.
> 
> There are many other maintainers who apply a similar strategy and 
> therefore deserve the same amount of flaming.
> 
> > The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream bugreporting plattform. I already have plenty of accounts on upstream bugzillas because of exactly this...
> This still would require
> a) "reporter" to be interested in getting involved upstream
> b) "reporter" to be "technically able" to get involved upstream.
> 
> In many cases, one or both considerations do not apply.

I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question.
Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report
upstream - in which case the maintainer should politely ask them to;
sometimes it makes more sense for the maintainer to report upstream. It
very much depends on the circumstances of the bug.
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